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The Demand for High-Skilled Workers and Immigration Policy
by
Thomas K. Bauer, Astrid Kunze
(January 2004)
published in: Brussels Economic Review / Cahiers Economique de Bruxelles, 2004, 47 (1), 1-19
Abstract:
This paper provides a descriptive analysis of the demand for high-skilled workers using a
new firm data set, the IZA International Employer Survey 2000. Our results suggest that while
workers from EU-countries are mainly complements to domestic high-skilled workers,
workers from non-EU countries are hired because of a shortage of high-skilled labour. The
paper, furthermore, provides a short description of recent German policy initiatives regarding
the temporary immigration of high-skilled labour. In view of our descriptive results these
temporary immigration policies seem, however, to satisfy only partly the demand of firms
interested in recruiting foreign high-skilled workers. A more comprehensive immigration
policy covering also the permanent immigration of high-skilled workers appears to be
necessary.
Text: See Discussion Paper No. 999
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